Combined paper and pencil holder



Feb. 19 1924.

P. BROUiLLETTE ET AL COMBINED PAPER AND PENCIL HOLDER Filed Aug. 30, 1922 Patented Feb. 1%, 19.24.

. s ress PETER A. BROUILLETTE AND ARTHUR It. BECK, 0F SIOUX CITY, IOTIVA,

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-- Application filed August 30, 1922. Serial No. 585,143.

17 o (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PETER A. BROUIL- L'nrrrn and ARTHUR R. BEOK,- citizens of the United States, and residents of Sioux City, in the county of VVoodb'ury, State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Gombined Paper and Pencil Holder, of which the following is a specification. I

The object of our invention is to provide a combined paper and pencil holder of simple, durable and inexpensive construction, so arranged that it may be easily and quickly applied to the upper edge'of the wearers coat pocket, and when applied it will positively hold a paper document or pencil in such a manner that either the paper document or'pencil may be easily removed at the will of the user, and which will positively hold either the pencil or the document against accidental'loss.

A further objectis to provide a combined paper and pencil holder which may be 1 formed of a single piece of metal and which is provided with folded portions in such a manner that one of the portions may be mounted on theinner side of the pocket, and said inner portion being-designed to clamp the pencil and document while the other portion is mounted on the outside of the pocket, and provided with a blank space in which an advertisement may be placed.

A further object is to provide in a com-- bined pencil and paper holder, improved tion. 7

These and other objects will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

' Our invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts'of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in our claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: 7

Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved pencil holder.

. Figure 2 is a detail view showing a segmental portion' of a coat, and also a portion of a pocket, and the manner in which our improved holder is applied thereto. I

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2, the pocket being shown in dotted lines. 7

Figure 4 is a detail view showing the holder in blank form as cut out by dies before the retaining members have been folded. t

The numeral 10 indicates a segmental portion of a garment and 11 the upper portion of a pocket for the purpose of illustrating the mannerin which our device is applied.

Our improved device is formed with a single piece of metal and blanked in the shape asillustrated in Figure 4, and provided with a rectangular portion 13 and a portion 14 having oneedge curved, the said curved edge being provided with an elliptically shaped'member 15. a The portions 13 and 14 have their adjacent edges separated by means of a slot 16, the inner end of which is formed with an opening 17. An outwardly extending bead 18 is then formed along the adjoining edges of the members 13 and 14. An outwardly extending bead 19 is also extended transversely shorter than the head 18 so that the bead. 19'. will be more flexible than the bead 18.

This bead 19 .may be made more flexibleby pinching or squeezingythe metal thinner as the beadisform'ed, or it maybe roduced by. forming a notch 20 so that the bead 191 is shorter'than', the 'bead18. The purpose of this will hereinafter be made clear.

. The member is then formed by simply' folding the member 14 adjacent to the member 13, as clearly shown in Figure 1, with a slight space between them.

The elliptical member 15 has its two pointed ends 21 pulled outwardly toward each other to make the pencil retainen'these ends being so folded that the opening formed thereby will be slightly smaller than the regular size pencil so that when the 7 pencil is in position, the members 21 will be slightly sprung apart. The bead. 18

forms a sort of rolled upper edge against which the pencil is supported, as illustrated in Figure 3, thus providing aid'ouble means for yieldingly holding the pencil in posicoming loose from the pocket.

I document indicated by the numeral 23 may be placed between the pointed end of the member 1-1 and the inside of the pocket. The pointed end of the member l l is yieldab-le relative to the fixed portion of the member 14 so that the document will always be yieldingly held in position.

By making the bead 19 thus yieldable with the bead 18, it will be seen that the space between the flexible end of the member 14 and the member 13 may be varied Without varying the space between the fixed portion of themember 14 and the said member 18, thereby providing means whereby documents of considerable thickness may be clamped in between the pocket and the said i flexible member without causing the fixed portion of the member 14 to be separated from the inner face of the pocket to such an extent that the said holder is likelyto become loose, as would be the case if the bead 19 was stiffened so that both ends of the member 14 would be spread when the document is inserted. p

i It will be seen that on account of the stiffness oi the member 18, the member 14 will be quite rigidly supported relative to the member 13 and the pocket firmly held against that member 22 which is opposite the fixed portion of the member it] The outerface or the member 13 may have any suitable advertisement placed on 1t, as it is simply a plate with a plain sur- J! 1 race, The sam member 13 may be made of any convenientsize. 7

Thus it will be seen that we have provided a combined paper'and pencil holder of simple durable and inexpensive con 'struction' which be made of a single piece of material and which is easily folded into sha e and which be ositivel sei one 01' said members being designed to engage one side of a users pocket and the other member yieldably supported and parallel with the first said member and designed to engage the inner face of the pocket, said second member having yieldably curved pencil supporting portions, the adjacent ed es 01 the first and second members being rormed in a cylindrical rib designed to rest on the top edge of the pocket member the pencil retaining members being so arran ed that a pencil when inserted therein will engage' said cylindrical rib, said second member being provided with a paper retaining member yieldably mounted relative thereto and to said first member,

the adjoining edges of said second member and said yieldable member being provided with a yieldable rib of a greater resiliency than the first said cylindrical rib.

DesMoines, Iowa, August 5', 1922.

PETER 'A.' BROUTLLETTE. AR-THUR R. BECKQ' Gil 

